Please answer my ?'s on this classical from the late 19th Century?

Question

this composition premiered in Paris in 1897. this work was inspired by a poem by a famous German writer. please identify this composition (it is fairly well known and was featured in a classic movie). And identify the composer. What is his birth-death dates, and the correct title of the composition (in both its original language and in English translation)? Also what is the source of inspiration for this piece of orchestral program music (hint: it is a comic poem by one of the most famous, if not the most famous, German writers).? And what is the name of the poem in which this musical was based? Have fun with this, cause I am lost

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http://www.cameron.edu/~thomasl/MUS1023%20Listening/EX_19.mp3

Its not homework, thank you very much. It was a question my grandfather had asked, because he loves classicals.

Answer 1

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the English name of both an 1897 symphonic poem by Paul Dukas (1865-1935) (L'apprenti sorcier in French), and of a 1797 ballad by Goethe (Der Zauberlehrling in German), which inspired the musical work. Goethe, in turn, based his poem on Philopseudes, a story by Lucian of Samosata."

Answer 2

I think it is more to do with the literary context in which the book was written in that affects its language rather than the time it was written. For instance I've been reading 19th century medical books for my Renaissance Medicine course and the English in the is far more complex than a Dickens novel for instance. This is because it is written for scholars more than just learned people. A book like Hound of the Baskervilles is aimed at learned people but is also for the general public so while Holmes and Watson are well spoken to present them as well-to-do gentlemen to the general public it might not actually reflect how most people of the time spoke. Just like the language in the medical book I read doesn't necessarily mean that this is how the writer or readers spoke, It is just how the books were presented at the time. Overall we can only truly guess how people spoke by looking at all the different examples, even for only a hundred years ago. Imagine if in a hundred years the only sources you looked at for how we spoke was written in text speech. I would say in general you could claim that learned people speak more articulately and the general public speak in a more degraded way, no matter what time you place them in. Only dialect and sentence structure would change.

Answer 3

This is the Sorcerer's Apprentice, by Dukas. The rest of your homework, you can do YOURSELF. GO watch Fantasia ( the first one) if you not already.

Doing your homework is not particularly fun for me. I have my OWN work to do. I will gladly *help those that help themselves*.